Is This the Dirtiest Song of the Sixties?

If Jack Ely had stood closer to the microphone on the morning of April 6, 1963, when he entered a Portland studio to record a version of the song “Louie Louie,” then the history of popular music would have been different. Ely, a former vocalist of the Portland garage-rock band the Kingsmen, passed away at his home in Oregon last week. He was seventy-one years old. For five years, from 1959 to 1963, Ely sang with the Kingsmen, a group he founded with a childhood friend.

The legend of the Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie” has been told almost as many times as the song itself has been covered. First released in May of 1963, and then re-released that October, the Kingsmen’s version climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard singles chart. The song’s popularity among a new generation of rock-and-roll teen-agers brought it to the attention of some concerned citizens.

Ely’s performance was a result of accident rather than design. Though the Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie” has gone down in pop history as one of the medium’s more endearing moments of amateurism, the group’s members were not inexperienced musicians. Ely studied classical piano as a child, and joined a vaudeville group called the Young Oregonians when he was eleven years old. The group performed cover versions of Elvis Presley songs, to which Ely contributed guitar and vocals.

The longevity of “Louie Louie” as a sordid and subversive rock-and-roll anthem could hardly have been predicted by its original author, Richard Berry, who wrote his song’s lyrics in a fake Jamaican patois, in an attempt to capitalize on the American calypso craze of the mid-fifties.

I think Mighty Sparrow has the crown for dirtiest song of the 60's with Harry, Elaine & Mama but it isn't as crude.

Highschool kids writing to the Governor to report misheard pop song lyrics.

One day long ago I was blessed with an unknown (to me) FM station playing only different versions of Louie Louie. All day. No commercials no dj no explanation. It was great.

😂... Waao....What a photojournalism

KCRW did a great Lost Notes on this

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